>2002
>get GBA for birthday
>play golden sun and a bunch of other jrpgs
>see previews for R/S and I am not impressed
>when it comes out I op to get final fantasy tactics advance instead
>never pick up r/s
>a few years later I see mystery dungeon and emerald being released
>I noticed that mystery dungeon is made by a different company altogether and fidelity is much higher.
>Looked at the sprite sheets and all of the pokemon have competent sprite animations
>realized that gamefreak was a pile of shit, and I was never going to pay for medicrody again

I didn't grow out of pokemon, I realized the games were bad a long time ago and I was tired of wishing pokemon was one way and started playing games that were that way instead.

There is a serious problem when literal nobodies can make better fangames than gamefreak.

>Inb4 it's for kids
So was dragon quest, mario rpg, paper mario, and the mana series